On 2012-08-21 18:10, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hey, folks. As discussed a couple of weeks back, I've always believed the boot.iso, DVD and live boot method test cases ought to test bare metal booting of actual physical optical media: we have no other test cases specifically for this, and we do have other test cases specifically for USB media and virtual machines (now). So it doesn't seem to make sense to consider a VM or USB test as a 'pass' for these test cases; potentially that could mean we ship a release without ever actually checking that it can be written to and booted from a real optical disc.
So, I've drafted up tweaked versions of three test cases which make this much clearer (and, in passing, remove obsolete references to anaconda's 'loader' stage, which no longer exists):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Methods_...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Methods_...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Methods_...
The first two are slightly modified versions of:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Boot_Iso https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Dvd
The third is intended to replace:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Live_Image_Boot
Which is really very similar to the first two, but - presumably just because it happened to get written at a different time by a different person, or something - was worded quite differently and not named in the same way. It's newer than the other two, but really I kinda prefer the wording of the earlier ones. It seems to make sense to replace it with a test case based on the same wording and naming scheme as the other two.
Comments, improvements, suggestions, complaints? Lay 'em on! Thanks.
I haven't received any feedback on this yet. If no-one complains, I'll go ahead and put them in place in the next few days. So, speak now or forever hold your peace :)